From Rob Roberts Sent Mon, Oct 1st 2018, 06:57
From Rob Roberts Sent Mon, Oct 1st 2018, 06:57
Very cool! :)=20 Ensoniq had a lot of fun products. -Rob- > On Sep 30, 2018, at 10:37 PM, Brian Willoughby = <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Sep 29, 2018, at 2:00 PM, Kenny Balys <xxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: >> Brian, if your article(s) is(are) handy why not post it(them) here on = AH? It >> will find its way to the archives and I, for one, would find it very = interesting >> reading. >=20 > Cover of issue number 59, May, 1990. >=20 > http://www.buchty.net/~buchty/ensoniq/transoniq_hacker/PDF/059.pdf > = http://www.synthmanuals.com/manuals/ensoniq/transoniq_hacker_archive/issue= _059/th_059.pdf >=20 > I alluded to a forthcoming article titled, =E2=80=9CPulse Width = Modulation for the EPS=E2=80=9D a.k.a. =E2=80=9CThe next best thing to = VFX TransWaves.=E2=80=9D I=E2=80=99m fairly certain that I=E2=80=99d = already written that article, or at least most of it. It seems that I = never got around to publishing it. It would probably be hilarious if I = could find the article on my old NeXT Computer backup tapes and publish = it 28 years later - for the few remaining patch designers still working = with the EPS voice architecture. >=20 > Looking back at my Transoniq Hacker collection, I see Sam Mims all = over these issues! >=20 > My (now) friend Vance Galloway actually managed to get a couple of = articles published. >=20 > Besides the venerable Garth Hjelte, there=E2=80=99s also the = inestimable Gary Giebler. He published the floppy disk (and hard disk) = formats for Ensoniq products. I can=E2=80=99t remember whether Ensoniq = also published documentation of this, or if it was only the MIDI System = Exclusive format that they provided. >=20 > Way back before Apple purchased NeXT Computer, I wrote software for = NeXTSTEP that allowed an Ensoniq hard drive to be attached to the SCSI = port of a NeXT. Instruments, Wavesamples, and Songs could be dragged as = icons back and forth between the Ensoniq drive and the local computer = drive. I even added features to the application to repair damaged = =E2=80=9CFAT" data on an Ensoniq drive to recover from certain problems. = The app would also perform an integrity check on an Ensoniq drive as = well as graph a bitmap of Used versus Free blocks. >=20 > I also had a Patch Viewer that never progressed far enough to be a = Patch Editor for the EPS. >=20 > Brian >=20